LogMeIn

Introduction

LogMeIn was founded in 2003. Its world headquarters is near Boston, Massachusetts; it has European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; Asia Pacific headquarters in Sydney, Australia; and development centres in Budapest and Szeged, Hungary.

It claims that its solutions scale from individual users to large corporations and can be tried, purchased and deployed from any web browser with an Internet connection, by both technical and non-technical users. LogMeIn customers include large corporations, small to medium businesses, internal and outsourced IT service providers, mobile professionals and individual home PC users and technicians. Over 125 million devices worldwide have connected to a LogMeIn service.

LogMeIn has an interesting partnership with ARM over its New Development cloud plaform and Xively development kit for "Internet of Things" apps.

LogMeIn sums up its philosophy thusly: "Our passion: Delighting customers and users of our technology; Our mission: Maximize mobility, connectivity and business productivity; Our vision: Worldwide connectivity for mobile work and life styles".

Company Info

AppGuru

AppGuru, curently in preview, is designed to "help IT professionals embrace, secure and manage the rapid influx of business and employee-introduced cloud applications in the workplace" - even if these apps have been adopted with little or no IT involvement.

It promises to help the IT group redefine its strategic role in cloud-centric business-led work environments. It has an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) feature which helps centralise the management of users in the cloud and helps with the setting and enforcing of policies for business and personal productivity cloud apps. It promises to change the IT Group into the "people who say YES" with 'just enough' control to allow an organisation to encourage the adoption of busness-led apps.

AppGuru is in beta and available on the web.

AppGuru appears to target IT professionals working in a business-oriented cloud environment.

The preview of AppGuru curently allows management of LogMeIn's collaboration apps, join.me and Cubby, as well as 3rd party cloud offerings like Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 through a central console.

Once out of beta, LogMeIn says that it plans to offer AppGuru both as a standalone cloud app management solution as well as an integrated component of new enterprise versions of Cubby, LogMeIn's cloud file sync and share app, and join.me, LogMeIn's online meeting and collaboration app.

Those interested in the AppGuru preview can request an invite via the AppGuru site.

As AppGuru is in Beta, the services support isn't yet clear.

Xively Jumpstart Kit

LogMeIn and ARM are collaborating on the Xively Jumpstart Kit, ARM Embed edition, which is a rapid prototyping-to-production toolset intended to reduce the cost, complexity and learning curve required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions (IoT is the Internet of Things) to market.

This development kit should help to make the IoT a practical reality for developers building next-generation solutions around Internet-connected devices and the cloud-based applications associated with them. It means that developers and businesses can focus on innovation instead of on technology, infrastructure and platforms, thus accelerating time-to-market.

Both the Xively Jumpstart Kit and Xively Cloud Services are available over the web from www.xively.com

The Jumpstart Kit targets early adopters and visionaries in the IoT space, of all sizes (from small entrepreneurs to established OEMs), and it is of interest to both business and consumer-oriented developers.

The Xively Jumpstart Kit combines ARM mbed, a platform for rapidly building connected devices using ARM-based microcontrollers, with Xively's cloud platform. According to John Cornish, executive vice president and general manager, System Design Division, ARM: "ARM is increasing opportunities for innovation across the Internet of Things with easy-to-use platforms and standards that accelerate the creation of low-power, end-to-end solutions. LogMeIn's Xively Jumpstart Kit harnesses ARM mbed to support the development of new IoT products..."

According to Michael Simon, CEO of LogMeIn, "The Internet of Things signifies the next major wave of the Internet, one that we believe could even eclipse both the web and mobile waves combined, and presents a massive opportunity for businesses that want to create a new generation of compelling connected products. In order to make this happen, they need a simple, affordable way to experiment and innovate through a platform that will enable them to seamlessly move from prototype to commercial product, and then scale as demand grows."